August 16, 2021 | Thought Leadership
“We have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Theresa My Next Stage team members and I recently thought it would be a great idea to re-establish our workplace book club. The book selected for our collective discussion was Tattoos on the Heart by...
July 19, 2021 | Thought Leadership
In the words of James Baldwin, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” In 2014, the Chetty Study ranked Charlotte 50 out of 50 for economic mobility. This study revealed that children who are born into poverty will...
June 3, 2021 | Corporate Impact
For the last year, Next Stage has studied the ways that businesses and nonprofits are intersecting in the Charlotte community. Our team studied a range of business and social good trends, interviewed more than 70 corporate and nonprofit leaders and conducted a study...
March 16, 2021 | Thought Leadership
by Josh Jacobson The state of our community right now is heartbreaking. Across the board, people who entered the pandemic in poverty have been most adversely affected. I’ve heard it said that “nonprofits are a lagging indicator,” and if we think it will take 3-5 years...
March 8, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Check out a past What’s Next? episode that explores the intersection of the private sector and social good. This episode features Blair Primas, Senior Vice President + Marketing & Talent Management of OrthoCarolina and John Searby, the Executive Director of...
February 26, 2021 | Planning & Implementation
By: Caylin Haldeman Anyone who has been on Facebook over the last year could tell you – fundraising looked very different in 2020. Online giving in its many forms (such as crowdfunding and peer-to-peer) has never been more popular. The Blackbaud Institute’s 2020...